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I hate paint chips, they're just too small to get any idea of what you're looking at. I wanted a silver and a black metallic. The silver is easy, but the black is where it snafued. I even carried the book out into the sun when I was picking it out. The one I got appeared to be black with minimal metallic, just what I wanted, it was called black mica after all. When I put the first coat on gray primer it obviously had a strong green tint, not what I wanted. It blackened up with more coats and the metallics are a mix of colors. I was planning on some type of blue divider stripe so I think I'll still be ok if I can find some kind of blueish green that I like. It's just disappointing when you're expecting one thing and get something else. Then when I got my satin black at Home Depot I saw they had some environmentally safe mineral spirits for a dollar more. Well, I like the environment so I got some. When I went to pour it in it looked like milk! I didn't want my satin black to turn gray so I stopped at a splash. I think everything is going to be fine, it was just a frustrating day as far as paint is concerned.